X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,10b7bb932d0a9609 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-05 14:20:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.stealth.net!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail From: Ilmari Karonen Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: New Version released - TONS of suggestions Date: 5 Apr 2001 21:18:04 GMT Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <986504967.2915@itz.pp.sci.fi> References: <3AC99B70.E4C0C49C@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <9agj8a$bsd$1@news.inet.tele.dk> <3ACCCF07.F41D247C@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Reply-To: Ilmari Karonen NNTP-Posting-Host: simpukka.saunalahti.fi X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 986505484 19684 195.74.0.20 (5 Apr 2001 21:18:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Apr 2001 21:18:04 GMT User-Agent: postit.pl 0.05 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:5117 In article <3ACCCF07.F41D247C@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Markus Gebhard wrote: > >You are right - but can you provide an algorithm that draws good circles >(in any size)? You can already draw lines, right? First divide the circle into four quadrants: left, right, top, bottom. Basic trigonometry should tell you where each quadrant begins and ends, and also let you compute the height of the arc for each character between the beginning and the end. Then you just have to "connect the dots". Actually, you _could_ do Bezier curves that way too.. -- . _, .. j u s t. h o w l.i n g i n .t h e n.i g h t .. ._, . , )'' . /\_ . ' ,/\ . , ``( , _\__/ |__.'\._______,--;_'_`-.___,.______,/_,_`.__,-.__'__,/`-._,_| \____ ,_f_)\. Ilmari Karonen iltzu@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ /(_|_,.